Well we all knew this about people who correct grammer on line

[Metoodear]

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/news/amp42354/people-who-point-out-typos-are-idiots-so-says-science/

My business? I run an award winning marketing and editorial agency.

Yes I have two professional qualifications higher than a degree. One which is pertinent to my current business, the law qualification isn't.

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I think you should. Actual qualified teachers should be able to give you a pointer with the apostrophe.

Everyone's a winner.

I think it was a very flawed experiment, which didn't really measure what it intended to.

That said, I HATE it when people correct my spelling or grammar unless on a submitted piece of work where I'm expecting it!

If you say you are, Jackie.😉

I wasn’t really expecting you to answer! I imagined because you have piercings and tattoos - I am correct, am I not? - you would not be a fronting as a “professional”.

There is award winning and there is award winning. Incidentally!

Oops - typographical error:

...you would not be fronting...

Laterz.

I imagined because you have piercings and tattoos - I am correct, am I not? - you would not be a fronting as a “professional”

Professional qualifications and tattoos/piercings aren't mutually exclusive.

Okaaay.👋🏻

The article is a bit odd because it claims that people who correct grammar are dicks and refers to research simply suggesting they have personalities that are lower in extroversion and lower in agreeableness.

I think that people do this online but wouldn't think about doing it when speaking to someone face to face (i.e. you're more likely to ignore grammatical mistakes when listening to someone speak).

Generally if you can get the gist of what someone is saying from their message, it doesn't really matter whether there are typos and grammatical mistakes however if something is written formally e.g. in an article by a journalist, in a message on a notice board or in a letter then grammar and spelling is important.

I do find typos and grammatical mistakes annoying but don't feel the need to correct people.

** extraversion- I'm allowed to correct my own typos!!

In my message "Grammar and spelling is important" hahaha! Grammar and spelling ARE important- my God!

It's so interesting to read all the different thoughts flying around why people correct, and peoples' reaction to being corrected.

I'm someone who enjoys having my own typing/grammar errors pointed out, but that's because I see it as a skill I take pleasure in improving, and I don't have any condition that makes me particularly insecure about being corrected.

I appreciate it the same way I'd appreciate someone pointing out a better technique for a particular bit of painting, for example.

However, I dont' correct others because I've learned that genuinely other people don't feel the same way (it took me a long time to learn this!) I do have social communication issues myself, which may be responsible for a little empathetic blindness in me. There's no emotion or judgement attached to spelling/grammar corrections for me (giving or receiving), and although I understand other people reporting these reactions, I can't pretend to understand them... at all.

I've also come to realise that some people perhaps do have malicious reasons for correcting others (ie. to deliberately invoke feelings of distress). Just thought it's worth pointing out that this is by no means automatically the intention (as it never would have been from me), sometimes people may be doing it out of genuine incomprehension of how it may be received.

I suppose this is quicker/slower to learn depending on the 'correcter's' own social insight or any other inhibiting difficulties.

I read what people write, not what they meant. So I see the error and am confused by it before I understand what they really meant. Bear and Bare or rain/rein/reign transpositions cause me issues particularly. 'He can't reign it in' for example fills my head with some idiot trying to rule over someone against their will and makes no sense. Yet if someone writes that my brain will try and decode it; every time!
I have trained myself (mostly) to shrug off and move along on MN threads for all the reasons you give. However this is a thread about grammar and spelling, so I'm releasing my inner pedant.

When people feel bad they have two options to raise them selves themselves up or cut others down.

Sadly the grammer grammar police try and embarrass others to make themselves feel better and show how clever (they are). their There have been a few posts about people correct-ing- colleagues at work in front of ever-y-one.

Grammar pedants can be really hard work. An interesting thread than can turn into the most boring discussion where 100 people repeat the same thing and think they are being particularly entertaining when they really aren't. Often none of them are answering the actual question posed by the OP. It's just becomes tiresome. Some posters point out mistakes but they do it in a helpful and kind manner along the lines of 'do you mean?'.
Others (many of them on here) seem to have to put the OP down as it makes them feel good. I tend to pity them when i see it. I think it's pathetic.

Agree, TheLionRoars

It's the 'let's put 'em down' posters who are the tiresome problem, not their method of the day. Which might be grammar, or might be something completely different.

Septima, you remind me of when we were living in another country and ds was learning to read at an English school with those bloody Janet and John and Patch the dog books and that glorious day when ds didn't 'read' a full stop, so Mummy ate, then Daddy ate, then Janet and John ate and then Patch the dog ate Janet and John

Oh!how we laughed! How we clapped our hands, banged the table and high-fived each other. That missing full stop was the best part of those books (well,apart from the beautiful illustrations)

nakedscientist, it's not polite to impose your (general) corrections on other people, it's supremely arrogant and rude and certainly not your place (or anybody else's) to do that. We can agree to disagree if you like.

I'm ok with my posts to ProfessorMoody, the disagreement was between the two of us and ProfessorMoody is perfectly capable of defending himself/herself, but if you think that my posts are actually 'bullying' then report them.

I think your friend was very lucky you backed away. Totally agree with you there OP, who needs nit-picking" friends"? Life's too short, we're not sitting exams are we fgs, we're just chatting on chat sites! Carry on as you are OP, I (and others) can fully understand what you are writing/saying and If ever we can't, we can just ask what you meant. Simple!

Jacqueshammer, have you any idea how pompous and ridiculous you sound? Do grow up dear.

nakedscientist, it's not polite to impose your (general) corrections on other people, it's supremely arrogant and rude and certainly not your place (or anybody else's) to do that. We can agree to disagree if you like.

I didn't correct anyone for SPaG not on this thread or anywhere else.

I'm ok with my posts to ProfessorMoody, the disagreement was between the two of us and ProfessorMoody is perfectly capable of defending himself/herself, but if you think that my posts are actually 'bullying' then report them

I just think if you are claiming to defend others, like the OP, against bullying, then you should not indulge it it yourself. I retain the right to point out that your attitude was rude.

I can defend myself, but I do think it was unnecessarily rude. If neanderthal bigots on Facebook are spouting off about people coming into "our country", but can't even use "our language" correctly, it's amusing to point this out. That was my point and I stand by it.

If somewhere like Mumsnet, where a person may be posting about anything and everything, it's completely unnecessary to correct SPAG, unless it's a post about SPAG.

auntethel

Lol. Good post. I concur.😉